Meet the Medicines-A Crowdsourced Approach to Collecting and Communicating Information about Essential Medicines Online.

ABSTRACT: The World Health Organization (WHO) maintains a list of medicines and medical devices, essential medicines, that should be available to everyone, to form a functioning healthcare system. Yet, many of these medicines remain out of reach for people around the world. One significant barrier to improving the accessibility of essential medicines is a paucity of information about both the extent and causes of this problem. E$$ENTIAL MEDICINE$ (E$$) is a citizen science project designed to investigate this deficit of information by recruiting members of the public to find, validate, compile and share information on essential medicines through an open, online database. Herein, we report an approach to crowdsourcing both the collection of information on the accessibility of

SUBMITTER: Golumbic YN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10002229 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature